LoginRadius, a leading software as a service (SaaS) provider of social infrastructure, has announced the addition of "Login with Amazon" to the LoginRadius social infrastructure platform. The LoginRadius platform and Unified Social API features social login with 29 ID providers, single sign-on, user profile data, friend invite, social analytics, social sharing and more.

At the beginning of 2011 we reported that Collect had decided to drop it's API in order to change their offering to something more profitable. But now ReadWriteWeb have reported the disappointing demise of Collecta. This has the potential of being the first big failure of a well funded real-time web focused company, so questions need to be asked about why this happened and why Collecta weren't successful. Back in January of this year we asked "Is It Finally the End for Real-time Search Engines?" and it now looks like that very question is being raised again.

The Salesforce.com Social Studio API supports the extraction, analysis, and modification of social media data from a user’s social studio account. The RESTful API provides direct access to the Social...